Biodiversity of Southeast Asian Seas, Palomares and Pauly 15 AN ANNOTATED CHECKLIST OF PHILIPPINE FLATFISHES: ECOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS 1

An annotated list of the flatfishes of the Philippines was assembled, covering 108 species (vs. 74 in the entire North Atlantic), and thus highlighting this country's feature of being at the center of the world's marine biodiversity. More than 80 recent references relating to Philippine fl...

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Main Authors: Annadel Cabanban, Emily Capuli, Rainer Froese, Daniel Pauly
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
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Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.298.9753
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Summary:An annotated list of the flatfishes of the Philippines was assembled, covering 108 species (vs. 74 in the entire North Atlantic), and thus highlighting this country's feature of being at the center of the world's marine biodiversity. More than 80 recent references relating to Philippine flatfish are assembled. Various biological inferences are drawn from the small sizes typical of Philippine (and tropical) flatfish, and pertinent to the "systems dynamics of flatfish". This was facilitated by FishBase, which documents all data presented here, and which was used to generate the graphs supporting these biological inferences.